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Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees

Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees


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The short stories in this collection, predominantly set in Depression-era mid-America, tend to feature bleak, realistic settings and characters resigned to their meagre lives. Despite the dark overtones, these stories are not without grim humor. The owner of an auto parts store occasionally "sells," to interested patrons, his sister Betty Lou; a young woman taking tickets at the Roseland Gardens futilely dreams of escape from the future she sees for herself; cryptic messages in library books indicate the yearnings of a silenced patron; an old man carefully saves his money to fulfill the requirements of a chain letter only to be disappointed by a spiteful daughter-in-law; and a young man helplessly watches the disintegration of a once prominent family. The stories are keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly fatalistic. In this new edition, Dana Gioia has added three stories to the fourteen gathered in the first edition.



About the Author :
Dana Gioia is a poet, literary critic, and a cultural commentator for the BBC. He is the author of Interrogations at Noon and Can Poetry Matter?

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"A serious poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and filmmaker as well as short story writer [Kees] had been an editor at Time and the Nation, a newsreel screenwriter for Paramount, and a contributor to the New Republic, Partisan Review and the New York Times." Publishers Weekly "Set for the most part in the Midwest, the stories isolate quiet moments in ordinary lives. Kees renders the significance of each situation and character with subtle but keen, undecorated, and honest style. All the stories are at once diverting and wise." Booklist "By the age of 29 Weldon Kees seemed on the brink of an important career in fiction. He was often published in literary magazines and was listed year after year in The Best American Short Stories; the 1941 volume of that prestigious anthology was dedicated to him... But he stopped writing stories in 1945 and later moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a filmmaker... On the basis of five or six pieces in The Ceremony & Other Stories, it appears American literature lost a distinctive voice."-Evan Connell for the New York Times, July 1984


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  • ISBN-13: 9780803278066
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Weight: 204 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0803278063
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Width: 152 mm


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